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«We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about»
«Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.»
«Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.»
Author: Thomas Troward
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act as, at present, bondage, discourage, insuperable, intention, release, repeated
«Somewhere along the line I decided that if I had something or did something that maybe it wasn't so great after all. I don't believe that anymore, but I realized today that in some areas I still act as though I do. I won't anymore. Smile. Sigh. Smile.»
«The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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act as, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, destroyer, drives, liberator, liberty, sheep, shepherd, shepherded, thanks, The Destroyer, The Destroyers, The Shepherd, The Wolf, throat, wolf
«The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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act as, confusion, multitude, origin, unity
«People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, an»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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act as, mission, The Wish, Truth The, victorious
«Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach?ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem?bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub?ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Equality,
Inequality,
Privilege
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act as, attached, by birth, coercion, coercive, commonwealth, commonwealths, considerable, counter, descendants, disposed, entitled, forcibly, good fortune, handed-down, hand down, hereditary, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, inequalities, levels, measures, occupies, ordinate, pertain, pertaining, pertains, practise, privileges, qualified, raising, rank, ruler, sub, subjects, subject to, the Commonwealth
«Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.»
«The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
act as, Arab, cheerfully, cheerfulness, folds, replace, silently, sit up, spontaneous, steals, steal away, tent, The Wee, voluntary, wee
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